Mustafa Maluka

NEWS: Mustafa Maluka's most recent solo exhibition took place at Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin (2008). Recent and upcoming group exhibitions include Flow at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2 April - 29 June 2008); World Histories at Des Moines Art Centre, Iowa (16 May - 31 August); and Common Affairs as part of the Steirischer Herbst festival in Graz, Austria (3-26 October 2008).

RECENT WORK

No more keeping my feet on the ground on Summer 2007/8 (28 November 2007 - 12 January 2008)

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

The Interview (a transcript) (15 February - 16 March 2007)
New paintings on South African Art Now (29 November 2006 - 6 January 2007)
New paintings at the Armory Show (2007)
New paintings at the São Paulo Bienal (2006)
Paintings from What Lies Beneath (Galerie Mikael Andersen) (2006)
The great quiet (2005) on South African art 1848 - now
Passageways into worlds beyond my grasp (2005) on South African art 1848 - now
Accented Living (a rough guide) (8 June - 9 July 2005)
Seen it all (2002)
The realness (2002)
Soul on ice (2002)
Cats drink champagne and toast death and pain ... (2001)

PUBLICATIONS

The Interview (a transcript) (2007)
Accented Living (a rough guide) (2005)

BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1976, Mustafa Maluka studied graphic design at the Peninsula Technikon. He held two solo exhibitions and was included on numerous group shows in the late 1990s in Cape Town. He subsequently moved to Amsterdam in late 1998 where he studied at De Ateliers, and was enrolled as a PhD candidate at ASCA (the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam). He returned to South Africa in May 2004. In September 2004 he was included on the group exhibition Personal Affects: Power and poetics in contemporary South African art in New York, at the Cathedral of St John the Divine and the Museum for African Art, travelling to The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, in 2006. He was the winner of the 2004 Tollman Award for a young artist. In July 2005 he attended a residency at Art OMI in New York. Recent group exhibitions include Cape 07 (2007); the 7th São Paulo Bienal (2006); What Lies Beneath at Galerie Mikael Andersen in Copenhagen, Denmark (2006); Nie Meer at De Warande in Turnhout, Belgium (2006) and New Painting at the KZNSA Gallery, Unisa Gallery and Johannesburg Art Gallery (2006). Full CV

Also see www.mustafamaluka.com.